Debris about 79 feet long has been spotted off the coast of Australia. Whether it belongs to missing Flight MH370 remains a mystery so far.

In the post-9/11 world, a jetliner with 239 people on board
cannot simply “disappear,” not least because the American secret
services have made universal surveillance the order of the day.
And the longer the search continues, the more questions arise.
Are the secret services indeed as powerful as they assure people?

CNN tried to allay the Americans’ concerns by showing them that
the search area is way too vast and inviting them to lend a hand
to the official investigation. But it didn’t work out.

No less than 26 countries, 43 ships, 58 planes, the FBI,
Interpol, and special services are all looking for the missing
Boeing – a situation which looks increasingly like a crime
series.

Experts from China and Colorado reportedlyfound the debris but were told it didn’t
belong to Flight MH370. Courtney Love (@Courtney) spotted what
looked like a plane on the surface of the water, but her
discovery was ridiculed as fantasy. The search operation looks
more and more bizarre by the day, as the media portray it in an
absurdist light, generating questions from the public.

The Malaysian PM posts regular updates on the missing plane
search on his Facebook page. But what looks like a detailed report
at first glance provides no proof and no results whatsoever, and
now families of the Chinese passengers are threatening to go on
hunger strike, unless the investigation comes up with some hard
facts.

The hard facts

What have we learnt over the last few days? The plane set off on
a regular flight from Malaysia to China on the morning of March
8, carrying 227 passengers and a crew of 12. One hundred and
fifty-three passengers were Chinese, including a delegation of 19 well-known
Chinese artists. Forty minutes into the flight, the aircraft
disappeared from radar screens.

Fourteen minutes later, the pilot switched off all the
identification and communication systems aboard.

“All right, roger that,” was the last message to be
heard from the cockpit, but the media somehow
transformed it into “All right, goodnight.”

A Reuters source says the tracking systems recorded the plane
dropping from 10,000 to 3,500 meters. AP’s military source stated
that the plane had changed direction by 110 degrees. Malaysian
officials denied both assertions.

The public was also told that the plane had stayed in the air for
four, maybe even eight more hours. In this time, it could have
made it all the way to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iran,
Vietnam, Russia, or some ocean island. All states reported that
the plane didn’t land on their territory.

Experts say that such a plane requires a 3.5 km long strip to
land. So the theory that it flew to Taliban controlled tribal
areas is not valid – there are no such landing strips there.

India was the only country to stop the search, but later resumed
it. Everybody else, the public is told, is still searching.

Iranians?

A terrorist attack was the first theory. It was the working
theory for several days, based on the fact that the two Iranian
passengers (aged 18 and 29) on board had fake European passports.

They bought those passports in Thailand. At first,
the media thought that Russians were behind the fake travel
documents, but it was soon discovered that some man had stolen
them, leaving his Russian girlfriend’s passport behind. Then the
media reported that it was not his girlfriend, the Russian
woman’s passport had also been stolen, and that its holder had
filed a report with the police.

The Iranian terrorism theory was later denied, because the two
illegal immigrants were trying to get to their relatives in
Europe by flying through Beijing.

Americans?

Six days after the plane disappeared, The New York Times
published an interesting blog entry.

Parliamentarian Hossein Naghavi Hosseini, spokesman for Iran's
Foreign Policy Committee, wrote that there were no Iranian
terrorists on board and accused the USA of hijacking the plane.
He also accused the US of finding such questionable characters
and using them to distract the media and blame everything on
Muslim countries.

“Documents published by the Western media about two Iranians
getting on the plane without passports is psychological warfare.
Americans recruit some people for such kinds of operations so
they can throw the blame on other countries, especially Muslim
countries,” the Iranian diplomat said, as quoted by The New
York Times.

Interestingly, no other media have quoted the Iranian diplomat.
But somehow they stopped looking for the Iranian terrorists.
There was some information about the 18-year-old Iranian and
absolutely nothing about his 29-year-old friend. Ironically,
American social media users expressed concern about the plane
maybe flying to Vietnam. Israeli media promoted the idea of Iran
and the Taliban being behind the possible terrorist attack.

Conspiracy?

The Malaysian PM thinks the whole incident was planned by some
group.

Malaysian investigators ran a thorough check on the pilots. They
searched the house of the 53-year-old captain. He had a flight
simulator in his house and he also supported an opposition figure
– a father of six, who was recently accused of homosexual
relations.

The junior pilot apparently liked to flirt with female
passengers, took pictures with them, and smoked in the cockpit.
Police also found one of the girls he had flirted with. She saw
their pictures together, remembered, and recognized him.

Investigators found and restored deleted files on the pilot’s
home flight simulator and discovered maps of four US bases. But
none of them had a landing strip longer than 1 km.

English reason speaks out

After ten days of futile search by planes and ships, there was
finally a voice of reason in the midst of all the media hype,
calling on the capabilities of American intelligence services.

The Independent asked how, given 21st-century communication
technology, a large passenger jet can simply vanish. Since every
iPad and iPhone owner can get an app that allows them to trace
their device if lost, it seems absurd that a £160m, 250-ton jet
aircraft should be untraceable.

20 passengers from Freescale Semiconductor onboard

On March 14, The Epoch Times asked about the 20 employees from Freescale
Semiconductor, who were on board of the plane.

The paper’s HQ is in New York, it is published in several
languages and funds the Falun Gong group, which is outlawed in
China.

The paper reminded us that the company’s technologies were used
in the US mission to land a man on the moon, as well as the first
two-way mobile radio that had a power supply and receiver for
cars. However, there is no mention of the fact that the corporation
split from Motorola and is now part of the Blackstone Group,
which had acquired a mortgage for the World Trade Center.

The publication posted questions from its Facebook page:
“Why were so many freescale employees traveling together?
What were their jobs? Were they on a mission and if so what was
this mission? Can these employees be the cause of the
disappearance of this plane? Could the plane have been hijacked
and these people kidnapped? Did these employees hold valuable
information, and did they have any valuable cargo with them? Did
they know company and technological secrets? With all the might
of technology, why can’t this plane be located? Where is this
plane where are these people?”

The corporation did not answer those questions and didn’t explain
why 20 of its employees (12 from Malaysia and eight from China)
were headed to Beijing. It only stated that there were no top
managers among these people.

Lethal test flight?

Soon, social media began to discuss four particular employees.

Conspiracy theorists, whom we often consider crazy, were the
first ones to bring them up.

But sometimes these groups can be helpful in clarifying certain
things, although it is also true that some of their statements
are simply absurd. Apparently four patent holders for a new
technology – which could make the aircraft invisible – were on
that plane.

According to the article, the company registered the patent on
March 12. Four inventors and patent holders were on board:

Peid ong Wang, Suzhou, China, (20%)

Zhijun Chen, Suzhou, China, (20%)

Zhihong Cheng, Suzhou, China, (20%)

Li Ying, Suzhou, China, (20%)

Freescale Semiconductor, USA (20%)

Had the patent been registered on March 7, the individuals'
families would have inherited the shares, but now the company
holds all the rights to the patent.

This information has been translated into many languages and is
spreading through social media. Some even say that Israel may
have been involved, or maybe the situation in Crimea is
implicated somehow.

Military operation?

On March 9, a very interesting video investigation was posted on YouTube.

There is no mention of where the information came from, but it
shows the movement of different planes over Malaysia on the night
of March 7. The voiceover points out two planes, possibly
military jets, moving faster than all civilian aircraft
disappearing from the radar before our Boeing.

The search for the missing Boeing is somewhat reminiscent of the
operation by the Boston police in their search for the two
Chechens accused of the Boston Marathon bombing: lots of noise,
lots of disinformation. And the older brother ended up dead, even
though he was alive during the arrest. And nobody is explaining
how it happened. The younger brother was shot in the neck, he
appeared in court and pleaded innocent, but faces capital
punishment charges. And nobody bothers to comment on the fact
that the pictures that had been submitted as evidence were
tampered with.

It’s probable that if an American plane disappeared in some part
of the world, the US would claim special interests in that
territory and take drastic action.

Whatever the results of the search are, many questions remain
unanswered. Western intelligence services claim their satellites
can read the newspaper held by anyone in any part of the world.
They claim they can track down any criminal and that the massive
spending on security doesn’t hurt the freedom of the people, but
actually saves them. Those who oppose the practices say that we
can all be tracked through our mobile phones and computers.

This story with the Malaysian Boeing can only mean two things:
either US intelligence greatly overestimates their abilities, or
they know what happened to the plane and are hiding the
information from the public.

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